William-brown



KAMERS, PHOTO-UTNOGRAPH-ER, WASHINGTON, D'C

naar sam WILLIAM BROWN, OFHOBOKEN, DIEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent N 100,115, datcd'FL-bruary 22, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN TUBE-STOPPER The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

A represents a` screw-bolt, the head a of which, in

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BROWN, of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson, and State ofNew Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement iu Tube- Stoppers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and in which- Y,

Figure l represents an outside longitudinal View of a tube-stopper constructed in accordance with my improvement, and Y Figure 2 a longitudinal section of the saine as applied to a tube, shown only in part.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My improvement consists in a certain combination of a bolt and nut with reversed cones or truncated devices, and a packing-ring, arranged so that on screwing u-p the nut the cones are made to act upon the ring from opposite sides, to expand or spread it, and thereby cause the same to close or stop the tube; also, the invention embraces, in combination with the elements just recited, a chamber, arr: nged between the truncated ends of the cones, filled with red lead or other suit-able cement, whereby, ou. screwing up the nut, the cones are made to force out the cement, to eti'ect a more perfect sealing or closing tf the stopper.

Said invention is applicable, among other purposes, to the stopping of locomotive-boiler tubes and to condenser-tubes. When applied to stopping the tubes of condensers, or other tubes not exposed to a higlrheat or steam-pressure, the ring that operates to stop or close the tube may be made of lead or other readily jcompressble metal or alloy, and whole or in one piece, but when the stopper is applied tothe tubes of steamboilers,,or other tubes exposed to a high degree of heat, then said ring should he of a harder or less fusible met-al or alloy, and should be split or divided, as

packing-rings for other purposes have been iliade, such l joint or split preferably not being in a direct or straight line with the tube, or two rings may be used with straight divisions in them arranged to break joint.

ln the accompanying drawingapplying the stopper, occupies an interior position within the mouth ot' the tube B, the stopper is designed to close. v j

The outer end of said bolt is formed with a square or other suitably-shaped extremity, b, for the purpose of applying a wrench to keep the bolt from turning while the nut G is being screwed up or slackened,.as 7

the case mayvbe.

Fittedou erover the bolt, between its head a and 'l the nut C, are two cones or truncated devices D D,'`

arranged with their truncated ends to face each other, and so that they tit within a leadvor other suitable packing-ring, E, leaving a chamber, F, between them, which may be iilled with redlead or other suitable cement c.

The outer one of the cones D should be fitted to move freely on the holt, under the action of the nut C, while the inner cone takes its bearing against the head a of the bolt.

By screwing up the nut C, the ring E is expanded by the action of the cones D I) on theopposite sides ot'it, so as to stop the tube, the lclosing of which may be yet more effectually secured by the' cones, as their truncated ends approach each other, being caused to squeeze or express ont o f the chamber F and around the edges of the rings, or through its joint when divided, a certain amount of the red lead or cement o, so as to effect a perfect sealing of the stopper.

What is here claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination and arrangement of the bolt A, witlrits uut C, the reversely arranged cones D D, and the packing-ring E, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The chamber F, arranged between the truncated ends of the cones, and lilled with suitable'ceinent, in combination with said cones D D, the packing-ring E,

' bolt A, and nut C, essentially as shown and described.

NVILLIAM BROWN.

Witnesses:

Fano HAYNES, j HENRY PALMER. 

